Clement of Alexandria
- ISBN-10
- 0674991036
- ISBN-13
- 9780674991033
- Series
- Clement of Alexandria
- Category
- Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1919
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Clemens, Titus Flavius Clemens, Saint Clement
Description
CLEMENT 'of ALEXANDRIA'. Titus Flavius Clemens Alexandrinus, famous Father of the Church, is know chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about A.D. 150, son of not-Christian parents. He had half a dozen admired teachers, most of them Greek, and, probably in early manhood, was converted to Christianity. He became a presbyter in the Church at Alexandria and there succeeded Pantaenus in the catechical school. His pupils included Origen and Bishop Alexander. When a persecution of Christianity had begun he may have left Alexandria in 202. He was known at Antioch, was alive in 211, and dead before 220. The surviving works are: (i) 'The Exhortation to the Greeks' to give up gods for God and Christ; (ii) 'The Tutor' (3 books) wherein Clement, maintaining that Christ as the Logos or Reason was and is the true Tutor, teaches how Christians should behave in following the Logos; (iii) 'Patchwork' (Stromaties, 8 books), of very varied content, but all intending to stress the true nature of the Christian 'Gnostic' (the 8th book, on logic, being incomplete and somewhat suspect); and (iv) 'Who is the Man who is Saved?' -- a good exposition of Mark, X, 17-31. Lost are: 'Hypotyposes', Outlines, 8 books of a commentary on the whole Bible including some 'apocryphal' writings; 'On the Passover'; 'Discourses on Fasting'; 'On Slander'; 'Exhortation to Endurance'; 'Rule of the Church'; and some other works. In this volume we give the Exhortation, the treatise on the Rich Man, and the Exhortation to Endurance. Clement was an 'eclectic' philosopher of a 'neo-Platonic' kind who later found a new perfect philosophy in Christianity, and studied not only the Bible but the beliefs of Christian 'heretics'. He prepared the way for a full exposition of Christian teaching.
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